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Pocholo Arangote
-Aspiring Cyber-Security Professional studying Information Systems Security at Sheridan College.
-Extensive experience mentoring and coaching students of all ages as a Swim Instructor and Volunteer.
-Proven experience as an Offensive Security Analyst, performing penetration testing on clients’ systems via Network and Web Application exploitation.
-In-class experience with Risk Assessment, Security Controls, and Penetration Testing/Ethical Hacking.
-Customer-focused approach to the analysis and protection of clients and their systems.
-Effective communication skills with both non technical and technical people.
-Fluent in English, Intermediate in French
Education
Honours Bachelor Cybersecurity
Sheridan College
Oakville, ON
present - 2019
- Focused on secure software development, network security, and Ethical Hacking
- Capstone: Enhanced Communication Protocols for ICS/SCADA Environment.
Industry Experience
Offensive Security Analyst
Packetlabs
Mississauga, ON
Dec 2021 - Aug 2021
- Assisted penetration testing team in performing multiple types of penetration tests using Burp Suite, Kali Linux, and penetration testing methodologies.
- Identify security threats, risks, and vulnerabilities on networks and web applications.
- Audit client website source code for weaknesses and vulnerabilities in Javascript
- Analyze current software versions, and identify out-of-date software, and associated vulnerabilities
- Using a variety of GUI based and terminal-based tools, perform penetration tests against client infrastructure and exposed services.
- Manage and Retest outstanding Client issues.
- Document and Present technical findings
- Review Client overall source-code for security and efficiency
- Document Findings into Client-Facing report.
Team Member. Innovation Accelerator
Sheridan College
Oakville, ON
Aug 2021 - Jun 2021
- Assigned as Team Project Manager.
- Collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of 4 people to deliver a tailored solution to client.
- Increase team’s performance through notifications and documents through Microsoft Teams and Whatsapp.
- Designed and delivered a multi-faceted solution to the challenge proposed by Food for Life via a pitch, and was selected as the winning solution for Food For Life’s challenge.
- Drafted and kept Meeting Notes through Atlassian Confluence, increasing team’s efficiency and organization.
Selected Articles
Who Builds Their Own Protocols!?1
Personal Website
N/A
2021
- Analyse a suspicious .pcap file in Wireshark to find a flag. Flag was hidden inside encrypted TLS traffic.
- CTF Writeup
Bell Threat Intel One Tweet2
Personal Website
N/A
2021
- Leveraging Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), use the contents of a single message to find the corresponding flag.
- CTF Writeup